Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1887-12-30
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/ The Midland railroad trouble in Wichita
has been settled by the council granting It
/ the right to build a switch along the west
( side Of MOsely avenue.
Three assignments were made Tuesday,
/ one in New York, one in Albany and one IN
/ Detroit all of them for small amounts.
The case against Hopkins, one OF the FL
/ deity bank wreckers, has been postponed
| till January 10Th
A fire at Downs, Kansas, destroyed prop
srty to the value Of $4,000, Tuesday. In
/ surancs small
The London Sportsman says the fight
l between Smith and kilrsin was more of 8
wrestling match than prize fight Richard
/ h. Fox Of the Police Gazette Is dissatisfied
| at the outcome of the fight and says it must
be finished. Fox thinks that Ailrain can
whip Sullivan.
It has been discovered that there has been
an organized sy TEN of rODbIng IN course IN
| tickets on the Lake Erie and Western rail
road, the Offices Of which are IN PIttsbur..
Tuesday, IN or er TO get # possibly, at the
| bottom of the robbery all the emslJyes Of
-uo passenger department including the
General Passenger Agent, A. j. Smith, were
| temporarily suspended Later the en-
plOyes Of the ticket accountants office were
| suspended, total of over A men. 1t IS
/ understood that as soon as the man imph-
Gated Is discovered they viii be returned to
| their places.
At st. Paul, Minnesota. Tuesday. The
thermometer indicated % below zero.
There was also a heavy snow fall. Railroad
men do not anticipate blOckades in Mime
sofa but fear them in Dakota.
Minneapolis, Mimi, dispatches Of
Wednesday state that the storm still con-
tlnues and is by far the worst of the season.
The Thermometer reached twenty-elght
degrees below zero at Fort AssinabOine.
Inc rate troubles between Chicago and
Kansas City points cont nue.. some mana
gers freely predict a rate war before the
winter is over.
A corporation of Drogheda, Wednesday
voted to confer the Nbsrallty Of the city
upon Villa n O'Er-en. now confined IN
IullamOre jail.
An immense raft from Nova Scotia is
now adrlft IN the Atlantic IN the course OF
European vessels. Secretary Whitney,
/. Wednesday, ordered a vessel to be sent ont
on the ocean to warn tho vessels Of its pres
ence and II possible 70 tow it into shore.
The steamship, Dolphin, was sent on the
mission.
The investigation 80 the Pennsylvania,
Lake Erie and Western railroad up to We'd
nesday night had developed nothing of
criminal nature. The Investigation has been
extended to the ticket Offices along the
lines.
The collections Of internal revenue for the
first i've months of the present fiscal year
amounted to sol, S50, 549, being an increase
pOndlug period of last year.
The steamer SANTANA which arrived in
New York Wednesday reports that heavy
norther swept over the West Indies on the
9th IJh Sth INST causing much damage. In
all 70 vessels were wrecked.
i. Packer, a dealer in fine lumber, as
signed cOndiuOually, at Pittsburg Wedues-
day. He does a business of 81, zoo, COO an
nually, and slow collections caused him the
t oubls.
IRE broke out iu pitt-bur- Thurzdav
morning, and for time il seemed impO-s
sible TO get 1t under control. Reports at g.
a. M, stated that It could be soon stopped.
Up to that hour the loss would aggregate
500 COO.
A Kansas City dispatch, dated Wednesday.
denies the truth of the reports sent out
from that city, Tuesday, TO the effect that
| there Is scarcity of coal in western Kan
sas5 which Is causing great suffering among
the settlers. The dispatch states that there
Is plenty Of coal, and that the settlers are
comfortably hZed-
Further dispatches from various parts Of
the United States vs. 5duesday. show that the
cold wave was very general, covering almost
/ the entire western haif Of the country. 1t
Denver Thursday morning the thermometer
stood at fifteen degrees below zero, and at
Fort DAVIS Texas snow was falling. At
Milwaukee the weather Is very cold, the
thermometer telling thirty three degrees in
a few hours. The Mohawk valley, in New
fan.
-Four persons were killed at Mount Ster-
Ing, Kentucky, Wednesday, while going
over railroad crossing IL buggy. They
were all intoxicated.
At Espanola, New Mexico, Wednesday
night, at a dance at which whisky flowed
freely, a drunken Mexican shot little girl
and airs. Gonzalez, wOund-ng them fatally.
H1llsbOrO, Texas dispatches state that two
buildings were burned in that city, Tuesday.
causing a total loss of $50, 100. " Wednesday
Joseph Leylng was arrested and indicted
Tor setting the buildings on IRE.
A meeting was held in Dallas, Texas,
/ Wednesday, with delegates present from
every representative district in the state, for
the purpose of cOnsultIn how to best obtain
an increased immigration TO the state. Com
mittees were appointed, and the represent
atlves Of various railroads were present and
stated their Willingness TO assist.
DR.. Ferdinand Hayden, a distinguished
scientist, and widely known as a geologlst,
died IN uhia, Thursday. lie occu-
pied more than twenty years III the eIplora-
JIou of the great west, Kansas, Colorado,
New Mexico and other western territories.
Among his publications were '1he Great
West, its Attractions and Resources
A mob of twenty men marched into Tom
kinsville, Kentucky Thursday night, and
! demanded the prisoners confined IN the
county lell for turning the town. ne mob
was finally dispersed, owing TO the firm po-
sition taken by the officers and citizens o.
the town.
A special from Abilene dated Thursday
states that there is not word of truth in the
sensational reports sent out as to suffering
IN western Kansas.
TammaDy Hall held a large meeting
Thursday night, and passed a resolution IA
worn & New York as the place at which to
hold the National Democratic convention.
Resolutions were passed calling for re-
duction of the surplus and the protection Of
American labor.
Lynchburg, Virginia, dispatches state that
I in Scott county young man named Napo-
| leon b. Temp was murdered by George
[ Adams, an unsuccessful suitor for the hand
| OF the young woman whom Temple recently
married.
James A. Tying, the Harvard college base
b III pitcher, has signed with the Phladel-
I phIas.
Chicago dispatches of Thursday state that
/ on January LIST California excursion rates
will be advanced frOm SO to $50 from the
/ Missouri river.
Anthony Nelson, one of the green goods
men recently put on trial IN New York City,
was dismissed by the court, Thursday, On the
[ grounds, as advanced by his counsel, that in
hi circular and letters there were no proofs
/ that the goods mentioned was counterfeit
money.
A collision on the Ohio & Northwestern
I railroad Thursday fatally wounded two pas
| seugers and injured several other and the
/ tram crews OF each traiu. The trains col
hded near 1dlewild station.
War Council.
| vienna, December I9.-Emperor Francis
/ Joseph presided at the council to-day. Count
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